09/11/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/11/2024 15:25
Download Assets HERE
Download EPK Footage HERE
"Premiere" - "Dancing with the Stars" returns for an all-new star-studded season! Co-hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, the series returns for season 33, featuring 13 new celebrities who are ready to hit the ballroom floor for their first live performance premiering TUESDAY, SEPT. 17 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT/PDT, 7:00-9:00 p.m. CDT), simulcast LIVE across both ABC and Disney+ in local time zones and next day on Hulu.
The season premiere will feature a stellar opening number to "Set My Heart On Fire (I'm Alive x And The Beat Goes On)" by Majestic, The Jammin Kid & Céline Dion, choreographed by Jamal Sims.
For their first performance, the celebrity and pro duos are set to perform dances, including the Tango, Cha Cha, Salsa, Foxtrot and Jive.
Fans will be able to vote during the live simulcast of the show in the ET/CT time zones. During this time, online voting will be available to fans in any time zone in the U.S., its territories and Canada via dwtsvote.abc.com, and fans on participating U.S. wireless carriers can also vote via SMS/text (fans in Canada cannot vote via SMS/text). Live viewer votes from the first two weeks of competition will be combined with the judges' scores from both weeks to determine which couples may be in jeopardy of elimination after two weeks of dancing.
The couples (along with their dance styles and songs) are the following:
"Dancing with the Stars" is the hit series co-hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough in which celebrities are paired with trained ballroom dancers to compete in themed choreographed dance routines that are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts, including Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough.
The show is produced in front of a live audience by BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions.
EPK footage for all couples is now available here.
Follow ABC Publicity on Instagram.
Follow "Dancing with the Stars" (#DWTS) on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.
Media Contacts:
ABC
Lauren Milovich
[email protected]
Disney+
Shelby Cotten
[email protected]
BBC Studios
Holly Taylor
[email protected]